Grosvenor coal mine construction 'encouraging'

Mr Cripps has visited Anglo-American's Moranbah mines, including Grosvenor Mine, a metallurgical coal operation due to start production in 2016.

He says the construction of the mine is encouraging.

"There's not a lot of new projects on greenfield sites going ahead in the resources sector in Queensland at the moment but the Grosvenor mine is going ahead and that gives us a great deal of confidence," he said.